MMRCA Governance and Management Capacity:
MMRCA is currently leading by Director General and Executive Director with a core technical team, finance team and support team at the HQ level and a technical and management team at the provincial level.
MMRCA is governed by a board of directorates whose members have significant professional and academic profiles with advanced degrees from recognized national and international universities. The members of the board of directorates have vast and remarkable work experience at national and international levels at various fields. The Board Members are key experts who worked in well-known NGO’s, UN agencies and Government sector with years of well-honed experience acquired mostly from field works in highly complex and demanding projects. This has given us enough expertise to meet normal and emergency requirement.
MMRCA has well defined Governance Structure that includes a Board of Directors (BoD), which is responsible for the organization’s governance, strategic management and oversight. The BoD consists of five members; three of them are independent members. In addition to BoD, General Assembly, Management Committee & a Coordination Committee have also been established at MMRCA. General Assembly has the role to discuss and declare an opinion on any matter related to the organization; it also plays the role of advisors to the board and management of MMRCA on development and critical issues faced to the organization. Management Committee and Coordination Committee works on central level and province level respectively, and are responsible for supervising all day to day technical, financial and operational activities of the organization.
MMRCA has a defined organization structure in place, which illustrates the composition and structure of all the departments and their respective reporting lines. MMRCA has defined and documented policies and procedures for its key functions such as financial management, human resource, procurement and logistics, Transport, Security, Documents and Assets, M&E and Program. Further, as MMRCA is implementing the projects with MoPH, it follows the policies and guidelines as laid down by the MoPH for Gender, HIV / AIDS and environment protection.
Financial Management Capacity:
MMRC-A has computerized financial management system operated by professional staff, MMRC-A manages its financial system based on its financial policies and financial management guideline. It keeps and maintains separate bank accounts for each and every donor/projects, and keeping both soft and hard copies of the financial documents duly signed and verified by authorized signatories. It uses QuickBooks software at the HQ level.
MMRCA’s Turn over in 2015:
Administrative Capacity:
MMRC-A has a suitably located office in Kabul that provides excellent facilities for the staff and activities implanted by organization and easy access to the clients of the organization. The office is equipped with basic office tools and internet. It also has a well-equipped training center equipped with all required training equipment.
MMRCA has its sub-office in Ghazni Province that provides support to its current SEHAT II and TSFP Projects.
Human Resources Capacity:
As of December 2015, MMRCA is staffed by a pool of 391 management, technical and support staff at its HQ, field office and Health Facilities. It has a total of 19 staff at its HQ and 32 staff at provincial office and the list of HFs staff is given below;
| Type of HF | No. of existing HFs | Planned staff | No. of available staff | Vacant positions |
| DH | 2 | 80 | 72 | 8 |
| CHC+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CHC | 11 | 170 | 148 | 22 |
| BHC | 14 | 91 | 87 | 4 |
| SHC | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
In addition MMRCA has 622 male and female CHWs as volunteers at the community level.
Recruitment process is supervised by a Recruitment Committee at MMRCA. All staff at MMRCA is hiring on a contractual basis. There are defined job descriptions for all staff members, the ratio of female staff employed at the main office and at project offices is 22%. Employee performance appraisals are carried out on yearly basis. MMRCA has a defined policy for staff training and development, and same is followed in terms of development of Training Plan and arranging trainings for the staff.
Research Capacity:
MMRCA has a strong and professional research team with advanced degrees in public health and allied sciences and demanding experience of the country. Its core research team is as follows,
- Haseebur Rahman MD, MBA, MPH, Ph.D.
- Sardar Parwiz MD, MPH
- Abdul Rashid B. Sc, MD, MPH,DMS
At the operational level it has research implementation team capable of collecting qualitative and quantitative data; it also has key community informants who provide support to the research team during the field implementation.